
Who Was Angela Zendalic
Mary Cavanagh(Author)
Union Bridge Books (Publisher)
Published on 17. July 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
326 pages
978-1-78308-243-8 (ISBN)
Description
Who Was Angela Zendalic? is set in Oxford, in the locality of Jericho and the world of University academia, encompassing the past and the present. A deeply moving and sensitive story told with skill, humour, and a mirror to profoundly changing times.
In 1954, Peggy, a respectable war widow and librarian, gives birth out of wedlock to Angela, a 'coloured' baby, and due to the discrimination of society, and her own deep shame, must give up the baby for adoption. Angela is adopted by a loving and well-meaning white couple, and as she grows up must come to terms with racial prejudice, the confusion surrounding her circumstances, and of falling in love with a man fifteen years her senior. Sarah, Angela's own daughter, grows up to be a feisty, liberated single parent who, on the death of her father, discovers her mother was a stranger called Angela Zendalic. Thus, she must confront her shock in order to search for her.
In 1954, Peggy, a respectable war widow and librarian, gives birth out of wedlock to Angela, a 'coloured' baby, and due to the discrimination of society, and her own deep shame, must give up the baby for adoption. Angela is adopted by a loving and well-meaning white couple, and as she grows up must come to terms with racial prejudice, the confusion surrounding her circumstances, and of falling in love with a man fifteen years her senior. Sarah, Angela's own daughter, grows up to be a feisty, liberated single parent who, on the death of her father, discovers her mother was a stranger called Angela Zendalic. Thus, she must confront her shock in order to search for her.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
US School Grade: Third Grade and over, Interest Age: From 13 years
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 146 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
382 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78308-243-8 (9781783082438)
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Person
Mary Cavanagh is a prolific writer and novelist currently living in the UK.